Superaci N De La Quotes & Sayings

People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks — Albert Bandura

In 1970, at the age of 14, I entered a short story contest offering a grand prize of one dollar. I won. This was my first foray into writing fiction. I loved reading and thought that it shouldn't be so hard to write a story. — David Bergen

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day? — R.L. Stine

She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything. — Michael Cunningham

I like to admire. I'm a fan of beauty. — Kesha

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that. — Marcy Kaptur

A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am now about to mix the two together. According to the above, they will explode in my face. Here goes ...
Well ... I'm still here! I poured the hydrogen peroxide into the hydroquinone, and absolutely nothing happened. It didn't event get warm! — Richard Dawkins

There's no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis

I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did. — George Will

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system. — Henry Louis Gates

You can never entirely rest comfortably with Michael Black or Michael Paynes. — Joshua Malina

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'. — Jacob Burckhardt

There is but one religion, the religion of Truth. — James Allen

let us not waste love, it is rare enough — Iris Murdoch

By the creative act, however, we are able to reach beyond our own death. This is why creativity is so important and why we need to confront the problem of the relationship between creativity and death. — Rollo May